Tangail: Two people were killed and four others injured when a truck rammed into a pickup on the Dhaka-Tangail Highway at Jamurki in Mirzapur upazila of Tangail early on Friday.

Highway police camp officials said the accident took place at about 12:00midnight when a Dhaka-bound pineapple-laden truck from Madhupur collided head-on with a pickup van, leaving the pickup driver killed on the spot and five others injured.

Of the injured, a pineapple trader died on way to Mirzapur Upazila Health Complex while the others were admitted to the hospital.

The identities of the deceased could not yet be known.